Egypt - Sadd El - Aali Project

Hazell, Peter; Jaramillo, Mauricio; Williamson, Amy

Egypt - Sadd El - Aali Project

Hazell, Peter | Jaramillo, Mauricio | Williamson, Amy

This is preliminary report on the Sadd el-Aali project in Egypt, to build a high dam on the Nile. The reservoir will have a capacity of 130 milliards (billion) cubic meters. Its primary purpose is storage for irrigation use of essentially all of the annual run-off of Nile flood waters. In addition the project will include 720,000 kw of installed power. Flood protection for the downstream areas will be provided by the dam and navigation conditions improved. The project is technically sound. Its reservoir capacity is the optimum to enable the maximum volume of Nile water to be made useable. It would be an integral and essential part of any over all schemes for the full development of the Nile water resources. It does not conflict with, but rather supplements, the so-called Century Storage scheme which, by providing over-year storage in the equatorial lakes, would smooth out the long wet and dry cycles, whereas Sadd el-Aali will provide basically for the storage of annual flood water and smooth out the shorter-run annual fluctuations in the river flow. It is concluded that the project represents the most feasible and economic method of obtaining a very large volume of over-year storage of heretofore wasted flood waters of the Nile River which is essential for expanding crop production. The location is the most suitable on the main Nile for a project of this nature and is strategic for full flood protection of Egypt.

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